A dad who suddenly collapsed in the middle of a gym session has told how he 'owes everything' to an off-duty nurse who saved his life.
Ste O'Grady, 41, was on the treadmill at Total Fitness when he suffered a heart attack and fell to the floor. Luckily for him, A&E nurse Kayleigh Garcia was close by and stepped in to administer CPR as gym staff rushed to grab a defibrillator, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Ste, of Widnes, said: "I remember being on the treadmill and I felt a bit of dizziness, so I went to stop the machine - but I was gone before I even had the chance. Read more: The lesser-known sign of lung cancer you should never ignore Read more: Police launch investigation after 'targeted' shooting in Leigh "The next thing I remember was waking up to Kayleigh with the defibrillator.
It was a sudden cardiac arrest. My heart just stopped. Fortunately for me, Kayleigh was there that day." Ste, a dad-of-two, was taken hospital where he received an ICD - a small internal device which uses electrical pulses to regulate abnormal heart rhythms, preventing future cardiac arrests.
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